Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belongs to a different crew. For him the most satisfying sport in the world is to shrink his world to the size of a cruising sailboat and to enjoy that world at leisure. Unlike Sir Francis, who made only one stop on his 275-day voyage, Eddy spent 51 casual years visiting some 400 ports...
...course, even the most casual initiate into the mysteries of baseball knows that Joe Nuxhall was the youngest pitcher to appear in a major league game, but, Harvard sports tradition to the contrary, a mere appearance in a game does not constitute a win. The sorry fact is that in his premature debut with the Reds in 1944 at the age of 15, Nuxhall established a firm precedent for such successors as George Plimpton by undergoing a merciless pounding from the then as now champion Cardinals. He did not again appear on the major league scene until 1951, when...
...cherubic face, easy grin and mild-mannered, professorial air still conceal his intellect from casual acquaintances. But a discussion of opera-or early Bing Crosby-will set him off, as will any mention of Augustine, Nixon, Sophocles or the Baltimore Colts. With his wife and three children, he is quite happily settled in a modest home in a Baltimore suburb built largely to the postwar specifications of G.I. loans...
...While this ancient virus infects only a small fraction of the country's 22 million Negroes, the Jew knows from bitter experience that it can spread with distressing rapidity. At the same time, some latent anti-black feelings have come to the fore among Jews?symbolized by the half-casual, half-contemptuous Yiddish reference to the "schvartzes" (blacks...
Unquestionably, the anti-Semitic remarks now being spewed out by Negroes are different in mood and intent from the casual insults of the past. One reason for the changing quality of black bigotry is the changed relationship of the Negro to the ghetto. Another is the shift that has taken place within the civil rights movement, which now excludes the Jews who helped create...